[wp-hackers] Comments automatically being marked as spam

[Otto]

Sounds like just one more reason to not use captchas at all, to me.

I use three plugins:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-trackback-validation/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cookies-for-comments/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

With those three, I get maybe one spam that makes it through per
month. The first two simply block spam outright, without filing it as
spam at all. Very clean.

No captcha's necessary.


-Otto



On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Jeremy Clarke <jer at simianuprising.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Potkanski, Jason
> <jpotkanski at tribune.com> wrote:
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/changelog/
>> http://www.blaenkdenum.com/2010/03/recaptcha-marking-all-comments-as-spam/
>
> Those links point out that 2.9.7 is a VITAL upgrade to the recaptcha
> plugin! They changed the nature of their service and updating the
> library is mandatory or all comments are marked as spam. In my testing
> I was actually still seeing the all-spam behavior with 2.9.7, but
> updating the recaptchalib.php file from the recaptcha google code site
> (not the wp one but the core one) made it start working again. YMMV
> but manually getting the most recent version of the library is the
> safest bet.
>
> If you're not sure then try disabling recaptcha and see if its still happening.
>
> ANYONE WHO USES RECAPTCHA TAKE NOTE! THIS IS A NIGHTMARE! You need to
> upgrade right away and go through your spam queue to find the real
> comments. Filtering for just comment_type=comment makes it a lot
> easier (as trackbacks aren't affected and you might have a lot of
> them).
>
> I bet your trackbacks actually are mostly spam, did you try testing a
> totally legitimate trackback?
>
> --
> Jeremy Clarke
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